Osseo man dies in one-car accident

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By Matt Durr

Hillsdale.net - Hillsdale, MI

By Matt Durr

Posted Jun. 18, 2013 at 1:10 PM

By Matt Durr
Posted Jun. 18, 2013 at 1:10 PM

Hillsdale, Mich.

mdurr@hillsdale.net

ALLEN TOWNSHIP — An Osseo man was pronounced dead Sunday evening at the Hillsdale Community Health Center (HCHC) after a one-car accident in Allen Township. Leon Charles Woodard, 76 was traveling southbound on M-49 south of Jonesville Road when his car went off the road and struck a tree.

The Reading Emergency Unit transported Woodard to HCHC, where he was pronounced dead. Deputies from the Hillsdale County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to the scene at approximately 6:20 p.m., where they found Woodard's 1999 Pontiac and determined what happened. He was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, but the air bags did deploy.

Deputies were assisted by Allen Fire Department, and the accident remains under investigation.

Woodard's death is the second accident resulting in a fatality since June 13. The first accident happened last Thursday when Kimberly Lynn Taylor, 47, of Hillsdale, was also pronounced dead at HCHC after another single-car accident. Police believe Taylor was traveling eastbound on Hallett Road and was a quarter mile west of Reading Avenue in Hillsdale when she appeared to have left the road and also struck a tree. After hitting the tree, the car went down a ravine and landed on it's top.